Corporate wants to bring a supersonic corp. jet to market... ASAP. Alan lacks social skills but he's a brilliant engineer, and he's a former test pilot. He's the perfect choice to head up the program.
Years later, the project is terminated. The prototype falls into the hands of spooks and it morphs into a long range supersonic stealth weapon. The pilot is one very angry Alan Taylor.

This official NASA history report - converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction - provides a history of research with the D-558 Skystreak and Skyrocket supersonic airplane at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California.

This is a fiction story that follows a fighter pilot from flight training to assignment to a squadron on a carrier to becoming a seasoned pilot who flies CAP and other missions. On one mission, he must protect the carrier task force from an intruder flying supersonic toward it at night during a typhoon because all Aegis systems are blinded and the carrier can't launch aircraft.